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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Oak leaves or feathers?

This tiny hexagonal plate snowflake, not bigger than 1 millimeter, is one of my all-time favorites. It have amazing internal pattern, which reminds similar type: sectored plate snowflakes like Winter fortress, though in this case these six dividers do not affect edge of snowflake, and it keeps shape of perfect hexagon.

7 identical RAW photos was averaged to raise signal-to-noise ratio of this image. Snow crystal was captured on glass background with LED back light, using lens Helios 44M-5 as additional magnifier, in january 2013, in Moscow, Russia.